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@tasshinfogleman Best guide to metta?

"If your mind is not kind to you almost all of the time, then half your practice should be Metta until it is." - George Haas

@metaLulie @forshaper What are the comparatively negative effects of meditation for heady people?

@windlesshickory @forshaper erm ask me questions

it’s not that meditation is bad for most people per se but normal meditation is so not the right thing to spend time on for most people compared to other psychotechnologies. its progress is very incremental and sometimes counterproductive

@akilian the OG metaverse

@metaLulie @forshaper Interesting. Where can I read about this?

@forshaper also people don’t talk about when it’s counterproductive enough and how terrible it is compared to Alexander Technique for heady people

@shreyas same thought often. but on google calendar, your completed tasks show up - crossed out. so satisfying to see.

When you check off a to-do in Google Tasks, it will immediately remove that to-do from your view. While that is a logical product choice, it ignores a major Job-To-Be-Done: people hire to-do lists partly for the sheer satisfaction of seeing all the to-dos they have checked off.

One thing that’s interesting about dopamine is it’s definitely not 1:1 w attention capacity. Plenty of things 2x dopamine (like cold showers) but don’t 2x attention. And adderall 10x dopamine but definitely doesn’t 10x attention (more like 2x). Maybe it’s logarithmic.

What’s your favorite chapter book?

@joshjob42 @theferrit32 @taliesinSF @AlecStapp @ZPostFacto Think of this sentence - That position is flawed, Kripke claims. All the time sentences have complete clauses that end in commas, not periods. The issue with putting periods in quotes in all settings is that the period is a universal indicator the sentence is over.

@windlesshickory @theferrit32 @taliesinSF @AlecStapp @ZPostFacto Do you mean the sentence on the following line? “I like it.”, he said. Because yes.

Truth

@nickcammarata You should check out David Lewis. He’s one of the 20th century’s great “philosopher’s philosophers” (in league there with Parfit and Kripke) and famously argued from purely epistemic and semantic grounds that every logically possible world exists. blackwellpublishing.com/content/bpl_im…

I wonder in how many universes a major proponent of the many worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics is also an epistemology philosopher. I bet a lot, because some of the strongest arguments for many worlds are epistemological

@nickcammarata Think immune systems can generally weaken across threats. Also, my dr told me there will be an explosion of autoimmune diseases since unstimulated immune systems attack themselves. That’s why having a dog lick your face as a kid is great for your body!

does anyone know why? Is it like our immune systems have given up and are like wow I guess disease isn’t a thing anymore until bam they are?

I'm sorry everyone that delta is happening, this sucks

@kyosaku_jon Do your legs fall asleep/ has the Burmese posture helped with that? Thank you!!!

@testicleas Martin amis

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@RoccBoyardee Happy birthday kiddo

@AmandaAskell Pardoning everyone because there is no moral responsibility, let’s see how it works out!

If I were a chaotic neutral president, I'd pardon everyone retroactively and proactively (since we've established that's a thing). Now I've created a population that have had all their federal crimes expunged and can't be guilty of any going forward. Let the hunger games begin.

@nickcammarata I feel like people's chillness with IFS isn't exactly them saying they think it's right, more like "yup this sounds super useful and pretty harmless"

To me the most surprising thing about Internal Family Systems is how chill everyone is with it. It’s a radical theory that says the brain is fundamentally about coordinating multiplicity It’s like Darwin proposing evolution and everyone’s like “eh yeah that’s probably right”

@nickcammarata It’s weird that the chips are out, the blinds are drawn and the items near the left window are put to the side. Maybe someone’s ‘on a diet’ and trying to hide some sneakages from an SO.

Important update I just realized there’s a second window, or maybe a second neighbor and I’m doing a huge faux pas by not foodsilling too

Alright who has the best explanation for the pint of milk and bag of chips hanging out on the windowsill of my 3rd floor neighbor’s flat

@max_hodak It’s the world around the kids that is changing in spurts and spasms, and that causes the clustering.

Given that children are born at an approximately constant rate, how does the phenomenon of "generations" arise? We take for granted qualitative distinctions between, eg, millennials and gen x and gen z, but why does this discretization exist?

@stuef I do creative dev for the multiple Emmy and Oscar winning filmmakers at storysyndicate.com. We'd love to talk to you about working together on something. Feel free to dm me or shoot me an email (zane at storysyndicate.com).